New Delhi, Jan 17, 2015: Mobile finance experts can learn about opportunities in the rapidly accelerating mobile financial services marketplace and network with experts at a global, interactive workshop. Mobile Money Asia, taking place 20 – 22 January in Jakarta Indonesia, is holding a ‘Mobile Financial Services 101’ workshop focusing on knowledge-sharing and collaboration.
Led by Amdocs, the market leader in software and services across the communications, media and entertainment industry, and Mobile Monday, an industry leading mobile platform network, the workshop will feature many key names in the industry.
Okki Soebagio, CEO of Jakarta-based software developer PT Arus Nawala, is set to explore the ‘Evolution of your mobile money deployment’. Alongside a senior representative from Mobile Monday, he will share lessons learned from mobile money deployments around the world in considering what to consider when deciding which products to launch, how to reach the ‘tipping point’ for mobile financial services adoption and what operational and financial considerations are required.
JP Ellis, co-founder & CEO of Compare88 Group, leads a panel discussion on ‘Paving the way for customer adoption’. Attendees can discover how clients perceive the technology, what issues concern them and what fears or misunderstandings prevent use.
Vice President of Amdocs, Justin Ho, will reveal insights from a recent field study of leading branchless banking networks in Indonesia in another session. He is joined by Michael Mori and Trevor Zimmer, IBGC-MasterCard Fellows from the Fletcher School at Tufts University, who will share their research profiling consumer demand for mobile financial services among low income Indonesians.
In an interactive session, Bhavana Ravindran from the Mobile Financial Services at Amdocs, leads a discussion on how Applied Product Innovation (API) methods can yield customer-centric mobile financial services offerings.
Michael Mori, The Fletcher School at Tufts University leads the final session on ‘Realising the MFS Promised Land: Designing user-centric products’. Panellists of senior representatives are set to share real examples of user centric product design methodologies for collaborating and meeting actual user needs to drive adoption and retention.
Emma Pearce, Content Director for Mobile Money & Digital Payments events at Clarion Events, explains:
“Our Mobile Financial Services 101 workshop is the perfect forum to meet peers and expert speakers, and discuss the key issues affecting the sector. Delegates will be come away with concrete action points and business cases for empowering their agents to see a greater return on profitability and efficiency.”
A three-day conference pass not only offers complimentary access to the workshop but also unlimited access to the Mobile Money & Digital Payments 2015 Conference and the new Payments Security & Authentication
Asia Conference which is co-located at the Ritz-Carlton. The delegate package also includes lunch and refreshments on both days (evening meals excluded), more than six hours of networking with leading experts from all over the Asia and the rest of the world, and the opportunity to see the latest innovations demonstrated in both the 20 plus stand exhibition and in the Payment Dragons’ Den.
A two-day conference pass for a technology/service solution provider is $2,399. Delegates from a bank or mobile network operator can attend for $999 – local rates are available. A three-day conference pass for delegates from the retail sector is complimentary.
Registration is now open at www.mobile-money-asia.com/PR.
Commonwealth Bank Indonesia is host bank of the event while Telkomsel, Indosat and XL are its host operators.CCI Newswire
